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Telecommunications Equipment Sales Rise, Bolstered by Internet
May 1, 1997 — Factory sales of telecommunications equipment rose 16 percent to $63 billion last year, spurred by rapid gains in Internet and intranet usage. The Telecommunications Industry Association reported that US exports of telecommunications equipment reached $17.1 billion, a 5 percent increase over 1995. International sales of telephone switching equipment gained 8 percent in 1996 to $4 billion, the largest export category for the industry. Also posting strong export sales were modems, which eclipsed...
Uniphase Shares Blue Laser Patents
May 1, 1997 — SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Biotechnology, semiconductor inspection and optical data storage are among the potential beneficiaries of a friendly agreement that allows Coherent to use some Stanford University patents in a new generation of compact blue...
Adaptive Optics Aim for Earthly Applications
Apr 1, 1997 — Large Earth-based telescopes use adaptive optics to measure and compensate for rapidly fluctuating wavefront distortions that blur the images of objects viewed through the turbulent atmosphere. Compensation for turbulence is important in many other...
Fiber Optic Gyros Put a New Spin on Navigation
Apr 1, 1997 — Aircraft, spacecraft and ships have long benefitted from using gyroscopes to help them navigate, and recently advances in photonic gyroscopes have brought this technology into the mainstream. These improved gyroscopes -- based on fiber optic...
Infrared Imager Helps Evaluate Papermaking Process
Apr 1, 1997 — The papermaking industry is among the highest consumers of energy in the US, and researchers at the Institute of Paper Science and Technology (IPST) in Atlanta are working to make the process more energy efficient. They chose Secaucus, N.J.-based...
Israeli Conference Marks Industry's Anniversary
Apr 1, 1997 — JERUSALEM -- A glimpse into the future by the laser's discoverer and a retrospective on the development of holography highlighted the 10th Meeting on Optical Engineering held last month at Jerusalem's International Convention Center. Keynote...
Optical Sensor Keeps Tabs on Rocket Fuel
Apr 1, 1997 — MARLY-LE ROI, France -- Bigger is not always better -- especially when you are building rockets. A new optic sensor under development in France could provide flight engineers with the first pressure readings from inside the liquid gas fuel tanks...
Outdoor Laser Safety Is in the Hands of the FAA
Apr 1, 1997 — WASHINGTON -- Laser safety issues are again on the bargaining table. This time, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is facing the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), and the impetus is a series of incidents involving lasers and...
Photonics Eyed To Cut Light Bills
Apr 1, 1997 — OAK RIDGE, Tenn. -- Using collectors to gather sunlight and optical waveguides to transport the light, researchers at the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have put together the first pieces of a hybrid lighting system that...
Side-Pumping Diodes Mean More Power for Materials Processing
Apr 1, 1997 — SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- A novel technology in which a side-pumped laser diode drives a solid-state laser source could mean more power and greater precision for materials processing applications, say the scientists who developed it. Use of diode lasers...
UK Photonics Exhibition Continues to Grow
Apr 1, 1997 — BIRMINGHAM, UK -- The fourth Image Processing & Optic Technology exhibition in February introduced more than 2000 people to the latest photonics technology from more than 100 companies. The general attitude of exhibitors and attendees at the...
French Navy Looks at Optical Sensors to Avoid Electromagnetic Pulses
Mar 1, 1997 — Photonetics SA and the Direction des Constructions Navales are making final tests on a wide range of optical sensors and systems to prove that optical networks are the way to go. Using silicon wafers, glass plates and fiber optics, the French Navy...
Laser Sensors Help Reduce Waste at Wood Fiberboard Plant
Mar 1, 1997 — Eliminating waste is a prime concern for any manufacturing plant, not only from the financial standpoint, but also from the environmental one. At a Swanboard AB wood fiberboard manufacturing plant in Larvik, Norway, the problem was how to...
Laser Technique Sniffs Out Pollutants
Mar 1, 1997 — While many factors can diminish a city's quality of life, one literally takes residents breath away: smog. Traffic, industrial pollution, weather patterns and geography can turn a perfectly lovely city into a very hazy place. Cleaning the air...
Micro- and Nanosatellites Could Populate New Earth-Orbit Constellations
Mar 1, 1997 — A team of researchers from The Aerospace Corp., led by I.L. Helvajian, hopes developments in laser machining will allow space agencies and communications companies to produce satellites with diameters under 15 cm, the same way hardware manufacturers...
NASA Detector Could Help Prevent Gas Explosions
Mar 1, 1997 — Researchers at NASA Langley Research Center have developed an optical flameout detection system for monitoring the combustor in the research center's propulsion test air tunnel. The fast-responding (less than 100 ms) detection process monitors light...
OEM Agreement Targets New Digital Imaging Markets
Mar 1, 1997 — In an original equipment manufacturing agreement between Everest Imaging of Austin, Texas, and Computational Systems Inc. (CSI) of Knoxville, Tenn., CSI will develop new software for its digital imaging instrumentation, and Everest will market the...
Partnership Targets Laser Patterning for Flat-Panel Displays
Mar 1, 1997 — General Scanning Inc. of Watertown, Mass., and an undisclosed industry partner are developing a novel laser patterning system for use in the manufacture of flat-panel displays. The company will design and build a prototype system to prove the...
Photonic Cleaning Process Moves to Heavy Industry
Mar 1, 1997 — A process originally developed for the microelectronics industry and typically used for keeping semiconductor components free of minute contaminants could now prove to be a boon to tire manufacturers. In an unusual case of technology transfer, one...
Safer, Cheaper Laser-Based Alternative to Prostate Resection Presented
Mar 1, 1997 — Surgeon John Kabalin of Stanford University School of Medicine gave a presentation describing HoLRP, a new transurethral/endoscopic procedure he helped develop as an alternative to transurethral prostatic resection. Kabalin said the HoLRP is as...
Steel Companies Start Laser Welding Joint Venture
Mar 1, 1997 — Under a planned joint venture agreement, Olympic Steel Inc. of Cleveland and USX-US Steel Group of Pittsburgh will form a new laser welding business that will process laser-welded sheet steel blanks. Plans for the new entity, named Olympic Laser...
US Budget Requests $702 Million for Technology Administration
Mar 1, 1997 — President Clinton has proposed that the US Department of Commerce's Technology Administration receive nearly $702 million as part of the Fiscal 1998 budget. The proposed appropriations include $692.5 million for the National Institute of Standards...
3-D Imaging Adds Depth to Science, Industry and Medicine
Feb 1, 1997 — When most people over 30 think of three-dimensional video, they conjure up memories of wearing silly red/blue glasses to watch even sillier horror movies. Today, three-dimensional imaging is serious business. An impressive array of advances in 3-D...
Coherent Continues Strategic Buys in Semiconductor Laser Market
Feb 1, 1997 — SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Coherent Inc., acquiring the pieces it believes are necessary to unlock the puzzle that is the laser market's future, followed up its purchase of Finnish wafer maker Tutcore with the acquisition of microchip-laser manufacturer...
Electro-Optics Consortium Taps Wick for Executive Directorship
Feb 1, 1997 — The National Network for Electro-Optics Manufacturing Technology has named Raymond Wick as its executive director. He had served as chief scientist for the Space and Missiles Technology Directorate of the US Air Force Phillips Laboratory in...
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